湛江市2016届高三调研测试英语
本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。考试结束，将试题卷、答题卡一并收回。
第I卷
注意事项：
1．答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的准考证号、姓名填写在答题卡上。
2．选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动用橡皮擦干净后，在选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。
第一部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
第一节 阅读理解（共15题；每题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Soul of the Desert
By Mara E. Schneider
Price:$ 4.99 USD. Words: 81,750. Language: English. Published: December 28, 2014.
This story, is an adventure of a boy on the run from the mafia（黑手党）．Which is worse, the guns of New York or the dangerous desert of New Mexico? All Bob has to do is to find a way to stay alive.
Snow White and the Seven Hills
By Alex R Casey
Price: $3.68 USD. Words: 6,630. Language: English. Published: January 5,2015.
What happens when you take three men in their thirties and turn them loose together? The wives have gone on a seven-day get-away vacation and left their husbands to fend（谋生）for themselves. Can these grown "boys" behave and not get themselves into trouble?
Hidden Trails
By Cheryl Pierson
Price: $2.36 USD. Words: 18,060. Language: English. Published: February 5,2015.
Valentine Reneau lives in fear that her father will find her someday in the heart of Indian Territory and force her to return to Mississippi to take her mother's place—in every way. She knows her time has run out when a stranger shows up on her land with two hired guns—and the devil in his plans. With some unlikely help, Valentine must try to escape the slave's fate that he mother left behind.
Astro is Down in the Dumps
By Susan Day
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 22.250. Language: English. Published: February 4, 2015.
This fun and entertaining book, Astro is Down in the Dumps, was created to give children the skills they need to build resilience（弹性）and cope with depression and anxiety. Astro is feeling so sad and blue that her can't get out of bed. Then there's a knock at the door....Who could that be?
1. What does Snow White and the Seven Hills focus on?
A. Career success. B. Environment protection.
C. Family life. D. Culture and education.
2. How much does the latest book cost?
A. $ 2.36 USD. B. $ 3.68 USD. C. $ 4.99 USD. D. $ 3.99 USD.
3. To know how to deal with anxieties, you'd better read the book by .
A. Mara E. Schneider B. Alex R Casey
C. Susan Day D. Cheryl Pierson
B
In the early morning, Patrick realized there was something in the wind.
His mother had been sad in recent days, not sick, just strangely sad. The lion had just lain down beside him, with his head warm on Patrick's feet, when his father cleared his throat and began, “You'll soon be eight, son. A boy needs a proper education. We've found the right place for you, a school near Salisbury in England.”
His heart filled with a terrible fear, in fact, all Patrick could think of was his white lion. “But the lion,” he cried, “What about the lion?” his father said, “I'm afraid there's something else I have to tell you”. Looking across at his wife, the dad took a deep breath. Then he told Patrick he had met a circus owner from France, who was over in Africa looking for lions to buy. He'd come to their farm in a couple of days.
“No! You can't send him to a circus,” said Patrick. “People will come to see him. He'll be shut up behind bars. I ever promised him he never would be. And they will laugh at him. He'd rather die. Any animal would!” But as he looked across the table at his dad and mom, he knew their minds were quite made up.
Patrick felt completely betrayed. He waited till he heard his dad's sound breathing next door.
With his lion at his heels, he crept downstairs in his pajamas, took down his father's rifle from the rack (搁物架) and stepped out into the night. He ran and ran till his legs could run no more. As the
sun came up over the grassland, he climbed to the top of a hill and sat down, his arms round the lion's neck. The time had come.
“Be wild now,” he whispered. “You've got to be wild. Don't ever come home. All my life I'll think of you, I promise I will.” He buried his head in the lion's neck. Then, Patrick clambered (艰难地爬) down off the hill and walked away.
When he looked back, the lion was still sitting there watching him; but then he stood up, yawned, stretched, and sprang down after him. Patrick shouted at him, but he kept coming. He threw sticks. He threw stones. Nothing worked.
There was only one thing left to do. With tears filling his eyes and his mouth, he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired over the lion's head.
4. Why did Patrick's mother feel sad?
A. Because she had quarreled with his husband.
B. Because she had suffered a strange disease recently.
C. Because she knew selling the lion would upset her son.
D. Because she missed her son who would study in England soon.
5. The underlined word “betrayed” in Paragraph 5 probably means “ ”.
A. annoyed or regretted B. unfaithful or cheated
C. sad and frustrated D. beloved and pleased
6. The boy fired at the lion to .
A. shoot the lion out of great fear
B. express his hatred towards his father
C. practice shooting the lion precisely
D. threaten the lion back to the wild
7. The passage intends to show that____.
A. animal-hunting is made legal for kids in some parts of Africa
B. parents are sometimes cruel to their kids and forced them to study
C. animals can also be faithful and they may live miserably in circuses
D. the adults will never understand the young's inner world well
C
On October 24, 1929 — “Black Thursday”—a wave of panic selling of stocks（股票）swept the New York Stock Exchange. The Great Depression began. By 1932, thousands of banks and businesses had failed. Industrial production was cut in half, farm income had fallen by more than half, wages had decreased 60 percent, new investment was down 90 percent and one out of every four workers was unemployed.
The Republican president, Herbert Hoover was unable to take measures to deal with the economic collapse. So in the 1932 election, he was defeated by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, who promised “a New Deal for the American people”.
Within the “Hundred Days”, Roosevelt rushed through Congress a number of laws to aid the recovery of the economy. The Civilian Conservation Corps put young men to work in reforestation(重新造林) and flood.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration aided state and local relief funds. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration paid farmers to reduce production, thus raising crop prices. The Tennessee Valley Authority built a network of dams in the Tennessee River area to generate electricity and control floods. The National Recovery Administration regulated fair competition among businesses and minimum wages for workers.
The Work Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most effective of the New Deal measures. Financed by taxes collected by the federal government, the WPA created millions of jobs by undertaking the construction of roads, bridges, airports and other public buildings. It kept workers in the job, thus preserving their skills and their self-respect.
The New Deal programs did not end the Depression. But the economy improved as a result of this program of government intervention (介入).
8. According to the passage, “Black Thursday” refers to the day when .
A. the New York Stock Exchange was shut
B. industrial production decreased
C. the New Deal was issued
D. the Great Depression began
9. The New Deal is a number of laws .
A. to deal with economic problems
B. to help state and local relief funds
C. to aid the workers to finish their stock selling
D. to make young people plant trees and build dams
10. The WPA was an effective measure because .
A. it ensured workers' minimum wages
B. it provided financial aids to workers
C. it preserved workers' skills and self-respect
D. it provided workers jobs of building roads and airports
11. In which section of the newspaper will you properly read this article?
A. Culture B. Economy C. Discovery D. Humanity
D
You watch a sad film and get caught up in your emotions. You cry your eyes out at the dramatic plot — you feel sad for the characters if they suffer, or happy for them when they succeed. It is only when the movie is over that you realize that what you were watching is not real.
But why couldn't you accept that when you were so absorbed in the movie? It was reported in Science Daily this week that scientists at Case Western Reserve University, US, discovered that people simply can not think emotionally and logically at the same time. Now scientists have found
that thinking logically and emotionally are like the two ends of a seesaw (跷跷板) —when we're busy thinking emotionally, the part of the brain used for cold and hard analysis is suppressed (抑制). And it's also true the other way round.
To come to this conclusion, scientists gathered 45 people — men and women — to take brain scans as they solved different kinds of puzzles. Scientists found that when participants were doing a math problem, the region in their brain that is associated with logical thinking lit up, and when asked to make emotional decisions, the region for emotional thinking lit up. But the most interesting part is that when asked to solve problems that required both logical and emotional responses, the participants always used one of the regions at a time while the other one went dark.
However, people sometimes ended up using the wrong one. This explains why some people are good at solving complex math problems but have poor social skills and why even the smartest people get taken in by fake but touching stories.
12. The author mentions “watching movies” at the beginning .
A. to prove emotional thinking is the most powerful
B. to introduce the research based on such kind of experience
C. to show that we are easily moved by something that is not real
D. to explain that sometimes we only use emotional thinking
13. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University proved .
A. logical thinking works differently from emotional thinking
B. logical thinking functions more efficiently than emotional thinking
C. logical thinking and emotional thinking take turns to work independently
D. logical thinking and emotional thinking could work well at the same period
14. It can be inferred in Paragraph 2 that____.
A. people can analyze their emotions logically
B. the two ends of a seesaw can not work at the same time
C. when thinking emotionally, people can not look at things logically
D. when people are thinking, the brain can obtain an opposite function
15. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. Don't cry over something unreal B. Movies and Feelings
C. To develop your logic well D. Your Heart vs. Your Mind
第二节 阅读填空（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there. 16 They teach you a lesson, or help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.
17 They may be a roommate, a neighbor, a professor, a friend, a lover, or even a complete stranger. Sometimes things that happen to you may seem horrible at first, but later you will find that without those difficulties you would have never realized your potential. 18 It would be safe and comfortable, but dull and utterly pointless.
The people who affect your life help to create who you are and who you become. 19 In fact, they are sometimes the most important ones.
If someone loves you, give love back to them not only. because they love you, but because they are teaching you how to love and how to open your heart and eyes to things.
20 They have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whomever you open your heart to.
Make every day count. Appreciate every moment.
A. Learn a lesson in life each day that you live.
B. They serve some sort of purpose.
C. Even the bad experiences can be learned from.
D. You never know who these people may be.
E. If someone hurts you, or breaks your heart, forgive them.
F. If you don't believe in yourself, it will be hard for others to believe in you.
G. Without these small tests, life would be like a smooth road to nowhere.
